Ex-EGMers Dan Hsu and Demian Linn (re)join EGM Now

Before the internet each issue of EGM was like fried gold, getting it in the mailbox once a month was a treat. I wonder what Ed Semrad and Sushi X are up to nowadays. :D

I miss Elephant Sak the most.

In regards to EGM my memories of joy come from Sean Baby.

Seanbaby is the most awesome person in gaming journalism EVER.

I miss "the Rest of the Crap".

Same here. I still have some old EGMs with a Mortal Kombat II combo and fatality guide and an issue with a Sonic & Knuckles guide in it.

OXM? Really? REALLY? :/

Game Informer?

SERIOUSLY? I haven't touched that shit since my last membership to the Funcoland Club.

Game Informer and EGM were practically the same magazine during the last four years of EGM's life. The only reason to pick one over the other is which one you weren't already getting for free. They were both pretty decent.

OXM has always been putrid trash. Arguably the worst layout in game magazine history. They cycled staff like crazy, it was hard to keep up with the style of the magazine with all of their inconsistent editorials and opinions. I miss XBN, that was a classy console specific magazine.

I used to get OXM for the demo discs, and now I just keep it out of habit I guess. What's on the demo disc is usually a month or two old. The editorials are always massively retarded and it falls into the usual journalistic trap of "all previews must be positive even if it's obvious trash". I find the reviews are generally accurate, though, and I am still using the L4D premium theme that came on one of the discs.

Game Informer usually has cool exclusive previews but that's about it. Makes good toilet reading material and it's cheap so hey whatever.

I really miss GMR, though. IIRC it was basically EB's version of Game Informer, but not stupid.

I didn't read EGM for a long time before they finally sputtered out, because most of the editors I liked (Shoe, Crispin, etc) had left. Last I saw they were using the same stupid letter-grade review system 1up used and there were no longer multiple reviewers per game. I always thought that was the best feature of EGM, really. Multiple perspectives on the same game can be intensely helpful. If you see 9, 9, 6, 8.5, you can read the 6 and see what they thought was bad about it. If that particular issue would irritate you as well, you would know to pass on it.

I know this is long and nobody's going to read it, but seriously, what's up with the "always positive previews" thing? Joystiq is just as guilty of it as every other press outlet. Why hype games that are obviously going to be bad? It certainly doesn't help their reputation from a gamer's standpoint. My only guess is that if they don't act enthusiastic about it, they'll be blocked from seeing future games or other games from that publisher. Honestly, I'd like to read a preview where instead of "there were slight framerate issues but they have plenty of time to work that out before release!" they write "The game was a slideshow at times and there's no way they can tune the game enough to make it good before release. Give this stinker a wide berth."

There were positive previews for Vampire Rain. Seriously.

You mean Gamestop Informer?

You should have gotten Maxim or a refund.